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Rh Burrough Strong, fitting for the West Indies. He was paid off from the ship last mentioned in Nov. 1837; was advanced to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; and was nominated, 20 Sept. following and 1 Feb. 1839, Second-Captain, on the North America and West India, and Mediterranean stations, of the 74 and  72, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey. He served in the, in 1840, on the coast of Syria and at the blockade of Alexandria; and continued employed in her until paid off in Jan. 1842. His promotion to Post-rank took place 21 Sept. in the latter year.

Capt. Wood married, 2 Dec. 1824, the only daughter of T. Ferrar, Esct., of Mecklenburgh Square, London, by whom he has left issue. – Messrs. Chard.

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died 30 Aug. 1846. He was uncle of the present

This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as A.B., on board the 64, Capt. Thos. West,, stationed in the Channel. Being discharged in the course of the same year, he next, in March, 1793, joined the 74, Capts. Lord Hugh Seymour and Geo. Hope; in which ship we find him present at the occupation of Toulon and in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794. After serving for upwards of three years under the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour as Midshipman in the 80, on the Channel station, he was there made Lieutenant, 16 Oct. 1798, into the  armed ship, Capt. Robt. Keen. Ill health caused him, in a few weeks, to be superseded. He was subsequently appointed – in Dec. 1799 and Jan. 1805, to the command of the and  gun-brigs, employed in the North Sea, on the coast of France, in the Baltic, on the Welsh coast, and in the Downs – 21 Nov. 1807, as Senior, after 18 months of half-pay, to the  74, flag-ship of Admiral Thos. Wells at the Nore – 30 May, 1808, to the gun-brig – next, again to the  – and 18 April, 1810, and 18 July, 1828, to the command, on the Baltic and Home stations, of the  and  cutters. The was twice engaged with the French flotilla; the, after a gallant defence of two hours and a half, was captured, while in escort of convoy, by a Danish flotilla, near the south end of Saltholm, 9 June, 1808. Mr. Wood was Senior of the in the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren; and while in command of the  he captured a vessel under the batteries of Bruens Haven. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 24 Dec. 1830; and on the Senior 28 March, 1842. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 21 June, 1832; passed his examination 22 March, 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 17 Aug. 1841, had been for some time employed as Mate in the 18, Capt. Edw. Beeves Philip Mainwaring. From 23 Aug. 1841 until paid off in 1845 he served in the 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the East Indies. He attained the rank he now holds 14 Jan. 1846; and since 29 June in the same year has been in command of the 8 on the African and North America and West India stations. While the was fitting at Sheerness, a sailor having fallen overboard, Commander Wood, who from his cabin witnessed the accident, sprang on deck and, without taking off any of his uniform, precipitated himself into the sea and succeeded in saving the man’s life.

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(b) entered the Navy, 31 May, 1804, as a Supernumerary, on board the 44, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, guard-ship at Leith; and from the following Dec. (five months after he had left the Roebuck) until May, 1811, was employed in the North Sea and Baltic, as First-class Volunteer, Midshipman, and Master’s Mate, in the sloop, Capts. John Willoughby Marshall and Thos. Percival. From May, 1811, until July, 1814, he served with Capt. Robt. Rolles as Master’s Mate in the 74 and  98, among the Western Islands and off Flushing, as also in the Mediterranean; where, after he had been for eight months borne as a Supernumerary on the books ol the  74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, he was nominated, 28 March, 1815, Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capt. Walter Croker. On leaving the latter vessel in the ensuing Oct. he was presented with a commission bearing date 11 Feb. preceding. He has since been on half-pay. – J. Hinxman.

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(c) was born 29 Dec. 1792. He is nephew of the late

This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 14, commanded by his uncle Lieut. Geo. Wood, and at the time lying in Horseley Bay. In the following May he removed to the 12, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Napier; and in July, 1807, after having served in that vessel off Boulogne, where he came into repeated contact with the enemy’s flotilla, he was received on board the 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland. In her he accompanied the ensuing expedition against Copenhagen. In May, 1808, he was again placed under the command of his uncle in the 14; and on 9 of the following month he had the misfortune, while in escort of convoy, to be captured, after a gallant defence of two hours and a half, by a Danish flotilla, near the south end of Saltholm. In July of the same year, having regained his liberty, he joined the 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, on the Baltic station, where we find him present in an attack made upon the island of Eastholm. During the subsequent operations in the Walcheren, he assisted in landing the troops, and was employed, in command of the ship’s pinnace, in supplying the gun-boats with ammunition in the attack upon Camvere. From the Mr. Wood was transferred, in May, 1811, to the  16, Capt. Jas. Lilburn. On 7 Sept. following the latter vessel, in company with the 24, chased into Calvados seven French gun-brigs (one of which was driven on shore), mounting 3 long 24-pounders and a mortar each, and manned with 75 men. She was in company, the next day, with the 36, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, when two more of the same vessels were compelled to run on shore, and one of them sunk. From Dec. 1811 until Oct. 1814, Mr. Wood served in Basque Roads and the Mediterranean in the 74, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood; and from the latter period until presented in March, 1815, with a commission dated 13 of the preceding month, he was employed in the Channel as Master’s Mate in the 18, Capt. John Furneaux. In one of the ’s boats he shared in an attack made on a French national schooner in Basque Roads. He was engaged in the same ship In Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813; on which occasion she threw several broadsides into the Agamemnon 74.

From the commencement of the peace until Dec. 1839 Lieut. Wood was employed in the Merchant service. He was then appointed Lloyd’s Surveyor of Shipping at Bristol.

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(d) entered the Navy 24 May, 1825; passed his examination 17 Aug. 1831; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 5 April and 19 Aug 1842, and 1 Jan. 1843, to the, , and surveying-vessels, all commanded, on the